Scientology: Cult or new religion?

[#1_War_Poet_ForLife]

You mean flipped over the x axis, right?

 

[Denny Crane]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chutney @ Jan 10 2008, 08:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane)</div><div class='quotemain'>3) If you stood at the edge of the universe and took one step outward, where would you be?</div>
You'll end up at the exact opposite end of the universe. Like in Asteroids.
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You might disintegrate, like in Star Trek (in one of the movies, they found a way to get past the galactic barrier and met God).

 

[Shapecity]

It's a business that doesn't pay taxes.

 

[Denny Crane]

What is Objectivism? I consider myself an Objectivist...

I wouldn't say it's a religion, because it's an anti-religious philosophy. Yet, Ayn Rand pushed and refined her ideas on this philosophy through the course of writing her series of novels. Similar to L. Ron Hubbard in that respect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Objectivism holds that there is mind-independent reality; that individual persons are in contact with this reality through sensory perception; that human beings gain objective knowledge from perception by measurement, and form valid concepts by measurement omission; that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or "rational self-interest"; that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights, embodied in pure, consensual laissez-faire capitalism; and that the role of art in human life is to transform abstract knowledge, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form?€”a work of art?€”that one can comprehend and respond to with the whole of one's consciousness</div>

And interestingly, Rand makes the case that Objectivism is not a cult:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"A blind follower is precisely what my philosophy condemns and what I reject. Objectivism is not a mystic cult."</div>

I think I'll blog about Nozick and Rawls tomorrow.

 

[GMJ]

Cult

Here is the the "Tom Cruise saved 9/11 AKA Scientology Indoctrination Video"

"We are the authorities on the mind...HAHAHAHAHAHA"

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EDIT:

Here's another good view: Anderson Cooper crushes Scientology

 

[AEM]

Next time I want a good laugh, I plan to read Dianetics.